August 27

Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.— I TIM. iv, 12.

For no one doth know

What he can bestow;

What light, strength, and beauty may after him go:

Thus onward we move,

And save God above;

None guesseth how wondrous the journey may prove.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

GLADSTONE.

So, then, Elijah's life had been no failure, after all. Seven thousand at least in Israel had been braced and encouraged by his example, and silently blessed him, perhaps, for the courage which they felt. In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

F. W. ROBERTSON.